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1) there is over 300 types of bread
2) there are many french footballers
3) some french words are also used in england for different meanings
4) some english words are used in france but mean different things
5) the flag is blue , white and red
6) nicolas anelka is french
7) there are over 300 types of cheese
8) the french made , reno
9) the french made peugeot
10) the french made citreon
11) they eat snails
12) they eat frog legs
13) some french people say frog legs taste like chicken
14) the capital is paris
15)French people cheek kiss to greet each others between family and friends, even between men. The number of kisses varies according to the region, from 1 (e.g. in the tip of Brittany) to 4 (e.g. Paris and most of the North), and occasionally up to 5 in Corsica.
16)French people have the highest female and third highest male life expectancy in the European Union.
17)20% of the French people live in the Parisian region.
18)Although French language is a direct descent of Latin, French people have some of the most diversified genetic make-up in Europe, with genes inherited from the Celts, the Basques, the Romans, the Franks and the Normands, which explains the wide physical diversity in French facial traits, as well as hair and eye colours.
19)According to Graham Robb in his book The Discovery of France, there were hundreds of small, autonomous republics within France until the 18th or 19th century. Some were autonomous hamlets that didn’t pay tax at all and were almost completely isolated from the rest of France.
20)Until the early 20th century at least two thirds of the French population was rural and most people lived in communities numbering less than 100 people. Few people knew anything a dozen miles beyond their place of birth, and few identified themselves with France as a country.
21)The French are the world’s biggest consumers of psychotropic drugs. 22)About one fourth of the population admits having taken anti-depressants or tranquillisers over the past year.
23)France is the third largest European country in terms of land area, after Russia and the Ukraine.
24)Nearly 20% of the territory of France lies outside Europe. These regions are known as “DOM-TOM”, where over 2.5 million French citizens live.
25)The Canal du Midi is Europe’s oldest functional canal. It was built from 1666 and 1681. It is 240 km (150 miles) long, has 63 locks, 126 bridges, 55 aqueducts, 7 canal-bridges, 6 barrages and 1 tunnel.
26)Rivers played a major role in French history, acting as the main transportation routes before the advent of the railway. 24 rivers in France exceed 300 km in length (against only 2 in the UK and 4 in Italy).27) 66 of the 95 metropolitan départements are named after rivers.
28)The tides in the region of Brittany and Normandy are the strongest in Europe, with a difference in level of up to 15 meters between high and low tide.
29)Saint-Véran (Hautes-Alpes department) is the highest municipality in Europe. The village itself is located at 2,042 metres of altitude, and the highest point on its territory reaches up to 3,175 metres.